Book description
With a preface by Norman Davies, author of Europe: A History.
Revised and updated following Russia's attack on Georgia.
No longer the sick man of Europe, Russia is run by an authoritarian
ex-KGB regime with the cash to put its ideas into practice. Under
Vladimir Putin's autocratic rule, it silences its critics and bullies
its neighbours. The murders of Anna Politkovskaya and Aleksander
Litvinenko have sent a grim warning to other critics and the sham
presidential  election' in 2007 that put Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin
as Putin's hand-picked successor showed how Russia's rulers, not the
voters, dictate the country's political future. The New Cold War
explains the Kremlin's use of energy blockades and trade sanctions,
military sabre-rattling and propaganda wars against its neighbours - and
why a divided and demoralised West is responding so feebly. It is an
incisive and disturbing account of why we are perilously close to defeat
- and how we can still win. Â If you need a convincing argument for a
joined-up EU foreign policy, look no further'
Edward Lucas is
currently Deputy Editor, International Section, Central and Eastern
Europe correspondent for the Economist. He has been covering
central and Eastern Europe since 1986. He was based in the Baltic
states from 1990 to 1994, covering the collapse of the Soviet Union
and, from 1992, as the managing editor of the Baltic
Independent, a weekly English-language newspaper published in
Tallinn. He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics, and
studied Polish at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow. The New Cold
War is his first book.
